Season 2022-2023
The championship begins next Wednesday after the dispute of the first title of the season in Seville
The 2022-2023 Endesa League was officially presented this Thursday at the energy company’s headquarters in Madrid, two days before the ACB Super Cup to be played in Seville. The regularity championship will begin next Wednesday the 28th, after this weekend Real Madrid, Barcelona, Joventut and Betis fight for the first title of the season in the San Pablo Pavilion, with the first semifinal on Saturday between the team Blanco and Verdiblanco (6:30 p.m.) and the second between the Catalan teams (9:30 p.m.). The Super Cup final will be played on Sunday, starting at 6:30 p.m.
With 16 players, representatives of each of the 18 ACB teams -except Tenerife and Gran Canaria-, including the new European champion Joel Parra (Joventut), the Endesa League raised the curtain in a ceremony that also yielded tribute to the Spanish team after the memorable gold in Berlin. “It has been a historic and unforgettable summer. This is the result of the work of many”, recognized the president of the Spanish Basketball Federation (FEB), Jorge Garbajosa, who described Unicaja point guard Alberto Díaz, re-fished at the last minute as a substitute for the injured Sergio Llull, as “the new hero national”.
“We have had a lot of fun watching this championship (the Eurobasket 2022) and those of the youngest,” said the president of the ACB, Antonio Martín, after Spanish basketball has been present this summer in the nine possible finals in all the categories and has won five others and four silvers. «The Eurobasket has been the finishing touch to a stratospheric summer. The success of the Endesa League is assured”, predicted the Secretary of State for Sport, José Manuel Franco.
Among the players, Álex Abrines, who this September has not been able to defend Spain in the European Championship, the Barça player also stressed that “Alberto Díaz has been the key in the Eurobasket”. “He has played at a very high level and at specific moments in key games he has been fundamental,” Abrines acknowledged in reference to the Unicaja point guard, although he also pointed out that, in addition to the team, “part of the success is also Lorenzo Brown’s.” “The key has been the group,” proclaimed Quino Colom, Marc Gasol’s new signing from Girona who was called up by Sergio Scariolo for the preparation but was finally ruled out by the national coach.
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